A/N: As always the only thing I own is the idea and the few OC's in this little story. Everything recognizable belongs to S. Meyer and whoever writes TVD for TV.
Introduction
"If it's my birthday, can I have a kiss?"
I asked Edward when we were outside my house.
During a birthday party Alice had forced on me I had managed to give myself a paper cut causing Jasper to try and eat me. That made Edward act stupidly and send me flying backwards on a glass table filled with china and glasses no one would use making me cut my arm. Carlisle patched me up but Edward had been giving me the silent treatment for the past 40 minutes and I was fed up with it.
I did get my kiss though, only it was so sexless I felt like kissing a statue. Then he was back in his car and gone without so much as goodnight. Resisting the urge to growl angrily at him I shook my head to reign in my emotions and headed home.
Unlocking the door, the house was dark so I put the envelope with the tickets to Florida and the one that made me get the paper cut on the small table next to the door.
I felt the hairs on the back of my neck stand up
"Charlie?"
I called out in the dark room. Where did he go?
"Dad?"
I called out again walking into the living room and turning the lights on.
"Surprise!"
Charlie and a group of people shouted at the same time jumping from behind the furniture. I felt a bubble of laughter come out from my lips. Charlie came out laughing and hugged me tightly in a rare show of emotion
"Did you think I would be okay with the Cullens throwing you a party Bells? I've been buying you a birthday cake every year in July because I had you here even though your birthday is in September"
He exclaimed. I chuckled and hugged him back
"Thank you daddy"
I said in his ear. Behind him was Billy in his wheelchair, Jacob with his usual brighter than the sun smile, mike with Angela and the person I thought I'd never see again.
"Lexi?"
I gasped as she hugged me with a teasing smile on her lips.
"Did you think I'd miss the big 1-8?"
The blond vampire asked with a slight giggle. Behind her stood another girl, with blond curls touching her shoulders and bright blue eyes. She looked perfectly at ease in the room and out of everyone's way.
"Bella this is my newest friend, Freida"
"Nice to meet you"
She shook my hand formally and I took a quick glimpse of a blue ring in her right pointer finger.
"I hope you don't mind me being here today"
Freida said in an accent that could be English. I shook my head
"I don't mind at all. As long as you don't take a bite out of my friends, family or the townsfolk. You're not going to live long after it"
I replied pointing with my eyes to Billy who was chatting with Charlie seemingly paying no attention to us. Freida smiled and nodded
"Don't worry, Lexi already briefed me into the situation"
I smiled and was ambushed by Angela who put a paper crown on my head with the words 'birthday girl' on my head. Charlie lit a match and used it to light the candles on the simple chocolate cake.
"Make a wish"
Billy said his lips twitching. for a moment I wondered how he could be in the same room as two vampires (albeit a different kind) and remain so calm. Then I shrugged it off making my wish. I opened my eyes and blew on the candles.
"whohoo"
Around me the room was filled with clapping. With a withering look at my face, Charlie took the knife and cut the cake. It was a double layer chocolate one with cherries and strawberries in a black forest way. Yum! He and Billy took their plates, the beer from the fringe and left the younglings to our fun and sat on the porch together.
Mike pushed the coffee table to the side and as soon as the 'adults' were out of the room Angela smiling brought a large bowl from the kitchen. Inside it was jelly-ish, red-ish thing.
"What is that thing?"
Freida muttered under her breath. Angela smirked and filled a small plastic glass with it.
"Its punch and yes it should be jelly-like"
"it's also ridiculously spiked"
Lexi smirked and shook a small flask in her hand and poured about half of it in the large bowl and about a mouthful in Frieda's cup. I laughed, mike winked - he definitely had drank enough of it already - and handed a glass to Lexi. Once again I was amazed how humanlike Lexi can be as I watched her down her drink with one gulp. I took a cup myself. It was overly sweet and spicy but it wasn't bad.
The stereo from my room had been brought downstairs as well and after the awkward 'someone-dance-already' scene we began having fun. For the next hour or so we danced till we dropped. Even me who never dances tried to imitate mike's moves and actually had fun.
Angela then provided a twister grinning. I gulped two more punch cups nervously. Lexi got Freida to loose up enough to play, Mike got in the most credulous positions, Jake used his body bulk to cover as many colored circles as possible, Angela used Jake as a bench to rest on while reaching what ever she could, Lexi pretended she needed a blue circle and tickled Jake so that both he and Angela were out of the game and after Freida relaxed enough she curled into a ball using only the circles around her. As for me I took a shameless hold on Lexi to remain upright, of course I fell down in one moment when I realized mike had a great view down my shirt!
Jake and mike were playing 'test your strength' (and both lost to Lexi much to my amusement) while Lexi, Angela, Freida and I ate our cake hoping to catch our breaths. If I didn't know that Freida was a vampire I never would have guessed it. She acted perfectly humanlike talking with Angela about Angela's dreams of being a journalist and ate the amazing black forest cake without as much as a wince.
When Charlie came back inside claiming it was far too cold to stay out anymore he found mike on all four on the twister carpet with Jake on top of him in a quite compromising position. He shook his head and gently kicked Jake's leg making him fall on Mike and both on the mat.
"I win"
He said cheekily, the corners of his eyes laughing with small wrinkles. I smiled at him seeing the person my mom fell for.
"It's quite late guys, pile in the truck and I'll drive you all home"
"Freida and I can stay here, right Sheriff?"
"You can both stay here Lexi"
Charlie said dazedly. He left the house then taking my truck to drive the guests' home. I snapped at her
"Lexi, no compelling my father!"
She stuck her tongue out at me and grabbing my arm she skipped upstairs. All three plopped on my bed and Lexi pulled another flask out of her bag
"So... where was the boyfriend tonight Bell?"
"At his house, at the party his sister insisted on throwing me"
"Why did you leave?"
Freida asked softly. I sighed, fell on my back and rolled up the sleeve of Esme's lavender shirt I still wore revealing the ling freshly stitched scar that would be my reminder of this birthday. Freida gasped
"He did that to you?"
I sat up putting a Sinatra mixed disk on the stereo and told them about today. my dream of introducing Edward to my grandmother only to find out that the grandmother was me, alike and Edward pretty much forcing me to attend a party I never wanted to throw in the first place, the presents and the paper cut, Edward thawing me to the glass table in a way to keep me away from Jasper, Carlisle stitching me and Edward driving me home. Freida was shaking her head speechless. I chuckled darkly.
"you still want to get your wish?"
Lexi said softly
"After today? Hell yeah"
"What wish?"
Freida asked looking at us. Lexi shook her head at her. Then she bit into her wrist she put it in front of my lips. Breathing through my mouth I put her bleeding wrist in my mouth and drunk. the sweet liquid was far too sweet and strangely pleasant, like syrup. After a few minutes she pulled her arm away. I wiped my lips with the sheet and Lexi licked her arm clean.
"Are you ready?"
"Yeah. Hit me"
She smiled again, an older sister smile than a sinister spirit one, and with a sweet 'sorry' she broke my neck.